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Vercel, Supabase, Stripe, Resend, AWS — wiring the pieces together so an AI product ships in days, not quarters.
The whole stack assembled into a build order: from empty repo to a paid, emailing, AI-powered product in a working week.
Five services, three environments, one leaked key away from a bad week. Config discipline is unglamorous and non-negotiable.
The managed stack covers 90% of an AI product. AWS is the escape hatch for the other 10% — long jobs, GPU inference, large files. Use it surgically.
The receipt, the download link, the password reset — if they hit spam, your product feels broken. Deliverability is a feature.
Charging money is a solved problem — if you let Stripe solve it. Checkout, subscriptions, and the webhook that is the real source of truth.
Real Postgres, auth, file storage and pgvector behind one SDK. For an AI product, having your data and your vectors in the same database is a quiet superpower.